When the app goes into a long calculation process, I want the mouse cursor to be an hourglass. I want that to be true no matter where the mouse happens to be pointing. That doesn't seem like such a strange objective to me <g> - but I'm not finding any good solution.

_screen.mousepointer doesn't affect the pointer when the mouse is over a form.

I don't want to put a new form over the whole screen (or maximize an existing one) because I want the user to be able to see the screen and all opens forms.

I don't want to use an API call because I don't want the solution to affect other Windows apps.

I could create a transparent shape (with .mousepointer=11) to cover each of the visible forms (there may be several) but that doesn't affect the pointer when the mouse is over a title bar, min/max buttons, toolbar, main menu, etc.

It seems like this shouldn't be so hard.

I'm using VFP6, if that matters.

Thanks for any suggestions.

-Bob